> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part
>
> I'm happy to update the manual, but I think I'd want more of a
> consensus (not necessarily a formal RFC, but at least a straw poll)
> for "soft deprecation" (to reuse the term we used for mysql_* before
> it started generating E_DEPRECATED messages but was deprecated in the
> manual) before making the change.
+1 to deprecate feature. I am generally favorable to BC but developers had 10 years to adapt to the
new syntax and the change is trivial.
If we plan changes like this for php 7, we'll have to reconsider our position on 5.7.
François